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A Broken Life, or Oberon's Magic Horn

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A Broken Life, or Oberon's Magic Horn
29.99 €
Broken Life, or the Magic Horn of Oberon - poignant and light memories of Valentin Kataev about his childhood years, his favorite city of Odessa "with its lovely, deaf streets lined with white acacias", about his mother and younger brother Zhenka - one of the future authors of "12 Chairs" Eugene Petrov, tragically killed during the Great Patriotic War. Individual fragments, which make up the novel, are connected by a single artistic concept and internal dynamics, permeated with the spirit of the time. Toy rocking horses and gilded nuts on the Christmas tree, the world championship in French wrestling and the emergence of the wireless telegraph, the first flight in an airplane famous wrestler Ivan Zaikin and his friend - an outstanding writer Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin; victory on the "cyclodrome" of the famous aviator and racer Sergei Utochkin; the dangerous adventure of his brother Zhenya on an old fishing boat and a secret journey with his friend Yurka to the Turkish fortress of Akkerman - all this, like pieces of a puzzle, is formed into a complete picture, bright and multicolored, like life itself.
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